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    Reformatting a new Acer Aspire 9424?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Trollkjeft, Mar 27, 2007.

  1. Trollkjeft

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    Hi,

    I am currently helping a friend to reformat his brand new laptop, in order to "get it all right" from the start.

    Although, when using a boot DVD the laptop doesn't recognize it and starts up Windows anyways, even though we changed the boot properties in it's BIOS.

    I have read on some forums that Acer uses some dodgy Norton Ghost software to prevent people from reformatting their PCs which has of course baffled me a bit.

    Has anyone here a clue how to work around this? I mean, there must be a way of reformatting a PC?

    Thanks for your time,

    /Chris the Swede
     
    Trollkjeft, Mar 27, 2007
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    bmnotpls Notebook Deity

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    if you have the boot setings in the bios correctly it has to boot from a cd or dvd, unless that dvd or cd is not bootable, make sure the media you are using is bootable and readable by the drive, try using another type of media eg a different brand.
     
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    The boot media is working and has been used before on other PCs. The boot settings in the BIOS is also correctly set.

    Although, I will try another boot media. Thanks for the tip!

    /C
     
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    ok then that pc probably can't read it. whats the current media being used?
     
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    A plain DVD-R which brand I cannot remember right now.
     
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